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The President answcred that the question of subjects and relevant dates was to be dealt with by the Organizing Com-mittee and should not be vested in the Statutes.

Art. 17 was then adopted according to the drafted text, omitting however “in agreement with the President and the Secretary” as well as “et les discussions" in the Frcnch text, in the fourth paragraph.

The President passed on to Section VI, Art. 18.

This article was adopted after having replaced the word “Committee” by “Society” and the term “Bulletin” by “Report”.

The President read then Art. 19.

Mr. Yerdeyen opined that this article should mention a minimum of 75% members of the Executivc Committee pre-sent for voting amendments of Statutes.

The President recalled Art. 12 providing a minimum of 50% voting members for decisions to be reached by the Executive Committee.

Thereupon Art. 19 was adopted according to the drafted wording.

The Statutes having thus been adopted by the Meeting.

The President stressed that as to the definite text, it would be the task of the International Secretary to put the articles into the proper wording, this applying particularly to the Eng-lish text being rather poor in this respect.

The President passed then on the second item of the agenda:

The application for membership as a National Society by a group from the Belgian Congo.

The President suggested that this group should make its application as provided in Art. 7. In case it would comply with the statutary provisions, the group would of course be accepted as a member of the Society.

The Meeting having agreed to this proposal.

The President passed on to the last item of the agenda:

Annual subscriptions.

Mr. Rocha suggested to make up a budget before deciding about the amount of the annual subscriptions. This budget should be established by the Secretary of the International Society.

The President stressed that the activities of the Society werc practically not financed by the subscriptions but by donations from private enterprises and international Organizations. The President therefore opined that a dccision about subscriptions should not be postponed.

The Meeting decided then to fix at 25 Cents the annual sub-scription of individual members and at SI 5.— the subscription by the National Societies to the International Society for the fortheoming period of 4-5 years, i.e. until the next Conference. The datę of perception was fixed at the 30 June of every year. Thus the ratę of subscriptions remained as before.

Mr. Ruckli recalled that the Sub-Commission having met under his presidence had not only been in charge of drafting the Statutes but also of setting up the list of subject divisions as regards the papers to be presented at the next Conference.

Mr. Ruckli reported that time had been too short for allow-ing the Sub-Commission to reach a decision in this respect and proposed to entrust the Organizing Committee with this task.

Mr. Ruckli’s proposal was accepted.

The President thanked all members present for their patience and useful assistance and declared the Meeting closed at 20.00.

L’article 17 est adopte conformement au projet des Statuts, en omettant cependant les mots «en accord avec le President et le Secrćtaire», de meme que les mots «... et les Discussions...» figurant au quatrieme alinea.

Le President passe ensuite a la section VI, article 18.

Cet article est adopte apres avoir decidć de rcmplacer le mot «Comite» par «Societć», de meme que le mot «Bulletin» par «Rapport».

Le President donnę lecture de Particie 19.

M. Yerdeyen estime que cet article devrait prevoir la reunion du 75% au moins des membres du Comite executif pour proceder aux modifications des Statuts.

Le Prisident renvoie a Particie 12 qui exige une participation au vote d’au moins 50% des membres du Comite cxecutif.

L’article 19 est ainsi adopte conformement au texte du projet des Statuts.

Le President constate que les Statuts ont ete acceptes article apres article et releve qu’il appartiendra au Secretaire de la Societe Internationale de proceder aux modifications de style qui s’imposent, notamment en cc qui concerne la version anglaise des Statuts dont la redaction n’est pas parfaite.

Le President passe ensuite au second point de Pordre du jour: un groupe du Congo Belgc dcmandc son admission com-me membre de la Societe Internationale en qualite de Societe Nationale de PAfrique equatoriale.

Le President propose que le groupe soumette sa demande d’admi$sion en due formę conformement a Particie 7 des Statuts. S’il remplit les conditions requises, le groupe sera le bien-venu comme membre de la Societe.

Cette proposition est approuvee par PAssemblee.

Le President passe au dernier point de Pordre du jour: les cotisations annuelles.

II est decide de les fixer a 25 ct. par membre individuel et a 8 15.— par Societe nationale comme par le passe, ceci pour la periode aliant jusqu’au prochain Congres, soit pour 4 a 5 ans.

M. Rocha propose de fairc etablir d’abord un budget par le Secretaire de la Societe Internationale et de fixer ensuite les cotisations en consequence.

Le Prósident fait remarquer quc les activites de la Societe ne sont financees que pour une part infime par les cotisations per-ęues et que Pargent necessaire provient essentiellement de dons de la part d’entreprises privees et d’organisations internatio-nales. Le President estime qu’il n’est donc pas indique de re-mettre la decision k une datę ulterieure.

La decision prise au sujet des cotisations est maintenue, et la datę de perception est fixee au 30 juin.

M. Ruckli precise que la Sous-Commission qui s’etait reunie sous sa presidence etait non seulement chargee de la redaction d’un projet de Statuts, mais encore de dresser la listę des sub-divisions qui permettraient de classer les mćmoires a etre pre-sentes au prochain Congres. M. Ruckli declare que cette Sous-Commission n’a pas pu rediger une proposition definitive k ce sujet, le temps disponiblc ayant etc trop court, et propose que le Comite d’organisation du prochain Congres soit charge de cette tache.

La proposition de M. Ruckli est acceptee.

Le President remercie les delegues de leur assiduite et de leur patience au cours des debats et declare la seance levee a 20.00 heures.

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